Have To Be Strong

Her eyes widened so hard while her whole body froze. It all felt like a dream or nightmare she did not know but it could not be true!

He just could not!!!!!!!!!!!

Tyrone let go of her lips as he licked the drop of blood and then stared deep into her eyes.

"If you took the name of that man one more time.. I will make sure that you regret it!" Was it a punishment then?

She touched her lips where she could still feel his warmth. The kiss was abrupt, short but it was so demanding that it left her empty and at the same time full of burning desires.

She could feel the taste of blood in her mouth and it churned her. He used the intimacy between them to punish her! How could he!? She felt hurt and abused.

"How could you?" she hollered as tears started to brim in her eyes, "who gave you the permission to touch me." her hands clenched into a tight fist when he raised a brow.

"Ha! Permission to touch you? You did not think about it when you leaned on me during the whole journey? You did not think about permission when you enjoyed my touch. You even closed your eyes and cherished the kiss. And even now.. You are full of desire so dont look at me like I forced you!" she felt ashamed and angry but more than that guilty.

She should not have enjoyed it. He was no more her lover, no more her husband. But.. she clenched her legs. Who would know just a touch could bring the fire back. She thought it was doused a long time ago.

"You still can not touch me. We are not together anymore." she muttered with muffled sobs as she ran to the bathroom in hurry.

"Wait! You can not go there." he shouted but she had already closed the door behind her when he took a long deep breath, "great! She did not have anything to hide yet she chose to go to the bathroom!" he cursed as he looked at the space between his legs. His pants were stretching with a large pole there and he closed his eyes in despair.

How could this happen? It was not even a kiss! He had just sucked her lips and then bit them yet he was hard! In the past three years how many times had women tried to crawl in his bed yet he did not feel a thing but now.. Just how much power did she still hold over him!!

"No! It is just that you are frustrated!" he muttered as he walked towards the table and picked up the glass of cold water. He drank all of it in one gulp but it was not enough. So, he picked up the pitcher next and drank it all in a gulp.

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Cassey washed her face with water. Once.. twice.. She kept washing it until her face turned normal again and she took a deep breath.

"You fool! He didn't love you. He was just punishing you." she reminded herself. His kisses used to be so gentle, so sweet but this was just a rough one yet she was so satiated and so hungry that she felt vulnerable and it hurt her pride.

"You have to be strong, Cassey! Or he will snatch Penny away from you." The last line did the trick for she felt instantly cold and bitter, "now, you will go out and tell that scum that you did not fear him and you definitely do not love him anymore or desire him. He is a scum who uses force." she nodded her head and wiped her face from her hands.

With burning eyes and straight back, she walked back to the room to face him and looked around but he was not standing anywhere. He was not even on the balcony when she walked past the bed but stopped. Her eyes fell on the two figures in the bed.

Tyrone was sleeping and Penny had somehow crawled over him in her sleep. She was lying on his torso while drooling over his shirt.

There was a sweet smile on his face that looked so contended while he wrapped his arms around her so that she did not fall again.

They looked so peaceful, so perfect that for a moment she felt that she was the extra one. Tears started to form in her eyes again as she sat on the edge of the bed and kept staring at both of their entangled bodies.

Under the glow of candles, his face looked so soft, so tender just like her memories. For a moment she wanted to sleep beside him, wrapping her arm around both of them and leaning on his chest to feel his warmth. It was addicting and she just could not get enough of it.

But she did not. For she knew that it was not love that she would receive there.. But it would be his ridicule and another humiliation that would be waiting for him.

She shook her head.

"The perfect family you are dreaming of was neve there in the first place. Did you not hear him, you are just a greedy woman who only wanted wealth from the start." she mocked herself as she walked towards the sofa and laid on it and closed her eyes.

She was so tired and sick with all the penting up of emotions and pain that she was exhausted. Sleep engulfed her the moment she closed her eyes and hugged the pillow.

The moment her breathing turned even, the large figure that was sleeping comfortably on the bed opened his eyes and stared at her.

He placed the little girl on the bed slowly making sure that she did not wake up from her sleep and slowly walked towards the sofa.

"Even if you were greedy Cassey, you could have told me. I have fulfilled your every greed more than you can ever think."